Bounty hunter Spike Spiegel is again on the hunt in Cowboy Bebop trailer

The countdown continues for the premiere subsequent month of Cowboy Bebop, the Netflix dwell motion adaptation of the favored anime collection. The streaming large simply dropped the complete official trailer for the ten-episode collection.  As we have reported beforehand, the unique anime collection premiered in 1998. It is a area western a few group of bounty hunters on a spaceship known as the Bebop. Cowboy Bebop drew essential acclaim and have become a cult hit thanks partially to its hanging visible model and its robust thematic parts.

André Nemec is the showrunner for the Netflix collection, having beforehand labored as a author and producer on Alias, in addition to the 2014 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles film. The director of the unique anime collection, Shinichirō Watanabe, is a marketing consultant for the brand new present. Manufacturing was delayed partially because of the COVID-19 pandemic, but additionally as a result of star John Cho (Star Trek, Harold & Kumar Go To White Citadel) suffered an harm on-set, which required him to fly from the present’s taking pictures location in New Zealand to Los Angeles for surgical procedure.

Cho performs lead character, Spike Spiegel, a bounty hunter born on Mars with a historical past of violent gang exercise who’s a fan of fist-fights. Alex Hassell (Suburbicon) performs Spike’s former accomplice, Vicious, who’s now a power-hungry Capo gangster from the Purple Dragon Crime Syndicate. Daniella Pineda (Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom) performs Faye Valentine, a bounty hunter and con artist in debt from extreme playing charges who spent 54 years in suspended animation after an area shuttle accident. Mustafa Shakir (Luke Cage) performs Jet Black, captain of the Bebop, and Spike’s ex-cop bounty hunter accomplice who has a cybernetic arm. And Elena Satine (Revenge) performs Julia, a shocking femme fatale who haas captivated each Spike and Vicious as rivals for her affection.

Netflix dropped the opening credit for its live-action collection final month, which paid homage to the unique anime opening credit (try this side-by-side comparability), set to the unique theme music. Tank!” (carried out by Yoko Kanno and the Seatbelts). We even caught a glimpse of Ein, performed by an cute Welsh Corgi named Henry. That was enjoyable and all, however then the streamer launched a brief skit that was additionally set to “Tank!”—even though Kanno had joined the challenge to create a model new rating for the live-action collection.  There can be an excessive amount of of factor, and it appeared like Netflix was going a bit overboard with the fan service. As James Whitbrook famous at Gizmodo:

The brand new Bebop has but to essentially again up its creatives want to have iterated on what made the unique anime so beloved within the first place, and couching itself within the familiarity of its most iconic piece of music time and again—particularly when returning to the effectively as many instances because it has up to now—begins to really feel increasingly more prefer it’s making an attempt to make up for one thing.

This official full trailer opens with a brooding shot of Spike surveying the futuristic metropolis of New Tijuana. “So what brings you again from the lifeless?” we hear a girl named Ana (Tamara Tunie, Legislation & Order: Particular Victims Unit) ask. She’s the proprietor of an underground jazz membership on Mars, and one thing of a surrogate mom to Spike. “Per week in the past I did a job, a bounty,” he replies—with a accomplice, no much less, who in all probability has no thought of what Spike was once.  It is all very moody and neo-Chandler-esque, set to a somber jazz motif. Then the “Tank!” theme kicks in as we see Jet Black piloting a spaceship. “On this photo voltaic system, if the cops and the bounty hunters do not get you, the Syndicate will,” Spike says in a voiceover.  “There is no blissful ending right here.”

We get hints of a doomed romance in Spike’s previous (“I used to be dreaming”), a spot of martial arts motion, and a blood-spattered, cocky Faye proposing a partnership, with a 60/40 break up (in her favor, in fact). And naturally, we get a couple of extra photographs of our favourite Corgi, Henry. However do our merry band of bounty hunters belong to the great guys or the unhealthy guys? “Is dependent upon who you ask,” per Spike.

Cowboy Bebop debuts on Netflix on November 19, 2021. Will Netflix achieve placing its personal stamp on this beloved collection? We’ll have to attend and see.

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